Lopön Tenzin Namdak

Lopön Tenzin Namdak (Tibetan: སློབ ་ དཔོན ་ བསྟན ་ འཛིན ་ རྣམ ་ དག །, Wilie: Slob-dpon Bstan- 'dzin Rnam-dag ) is a religious leader Bön born in 1926.

Vajranatha, a large well-read man main Nyingmapa and Ngagpa S, collaborated with Lopön Tenzin Namdak.

Biography

Lopön Tenzin Namdak was born in 1926 in Khyungpo Karu in the Kham (the province is Tibet) in a family from famous artists. In 1933, at the 7 years age, it enters to the Monastère of Tingchen the same area. In 1941 Lopön Rinpoché went to Yungdrung Ling, then one of the two principal monasteries Bönpo of Tibet Central. With Yungdrunk Ling, Lopön Rinpoché helped to carry out a series of mural tables in a new temple. In 1944 Lopön Rinpoché went in Pilgrimage to the Nepal including Solu-Khombu, Pokhara, the Mustang and Katmandou.

In 1945, to 19 years, Lopön Rinpoché is turned over to Yungdrung Ling to begin studies of Philosophie (tsennyi; mtshan nyid). Between 1945 and 1950, it lived an existence of hermit, cloister with his professor and Maître Gangru Rinpoché with which it studied poetry (nyanga; snyan ngag ), cosmology (dzopu; mdzod phug ), grammar (da; will sgra ), the monastic discipline (dulwa; dul Ba ) and stages on the way of the awakening (salam; its lam ).

Lopön Rinpoché went to the Monastère of Menri (literally “the mountain of medicine”) in the Province of the U-Tsang in the Tibet Central in 1950 when, on instruction of Gangru Rinpoché, it began its studies towards the degree from Geshe (the Tibetan equivalent of Doctor of Philosophy) and reached it in 1953. Lopön Rinpoché became professor or teaching Master (Lopön) with the Monastère of Menri of 1953 with 1957. Lopön Rinpoché left Menri and its station in 1957 because of the increasing conflicts between the Chinese Tibetans and soldiers. In 1957 Lopön Rinpoché left Menri and the Tibet for the Monastère of Sezhig on the Lac of Dangra in the north of the U-Tsang where it remained in spiritual retirement until 1960.

The exile: capture by the Chinese army and escape in Nepal

After the Rising of Lhasa (on March 10th 1959), much large LAMA S of the Tibet, including the 14th Dalai Lama and the 16th Karmapa was exiled of their fatherland with many refugees Tibetans, seeking refuge in India and with the Nepal.

Lopön Rinpoché tried to take refuge in India in 1960, but it was touched by shootings, casualty, and was captured by the Chinese soldiers. Imprisoned ten months by the Chinese mode, it succeeds in fleeing while crossing the principality of the Mustang and reaching the Nepal.

Kathmandu and the meeting off Tibetologist David Snellgrove While in Kathmandu in 1961, Lopön Rinpoche and the English Tibetologist David Snellgrove became colleagues. David Snellgrove invited Lopön Rinpoche to London where, through has Rockefeller Foundation grant, He became has off visiting Scholar At the University London. Lopön Rinpoche resided for has period At Cambridge University. The collaboration with David Snellgrove resulted in the publication off The Nine Ways off Bön which includes extracts translated from the esteemed Zhiji ( gzi brjid ): year extensive Hagiography off the Buddha Tonpa Shenrab. Collaborative This work was the first scholarly study off the Bönpo tradition to Be conducted in the West. Lopön Rinpoche continued in England for three years (1961 - 1964). Lopön Rinpoche made has second visit to Europe in 1969 off At the invitation professor Helmut Hoffmann where He has visiting scholar At Munich University where He significantly contributed to compiling off the Tibetan-German-English Dictionary .

The building off the Tibetan Bönpo Foundation in Dolanji, Himachal Pradesh

Lopön Rinpoche undertook the task off raising funds and finding Land in order to establish has settlement Bönpo in India. With the financial help off the Catholic Relief Service, He purchased has part off undeveloped forest Land At Dolanji, near Solan in Himachal Pradesh. In 1967 the settlement was formally established and registered with the Indian Government under the name off the Tibetan Bönpo Foundation. Butt seventy families transferred there from Manali and each received has house and has small part off Land, the size depending one the number off people in the family in question. The Tibetan Bönpo Foundation possessed its own constitution and administration, with the Abbot off Menri acting ace president. The new settlement At Dolanji was named Thobgyal Sarpa ( thob rgyal gsar Pa ) after the village Thobgyal in Tsang Provence which was located near Menri Monastery. Most off the Tibetans in the new settlement cam from the Mount Kailash area and Upper Tsang in the west, and from Hor, Kongpo, Derge, Amdo and Gyarung in the east off Tibet.

Negro spiritual leader off the Bönpo community in exiles

After the death off the abbot off Menri in 1963, Sherab Lodro, the abbot off Yungdrung Ling became the negro spiritual head off the Bönpo community in exiles. Sherab Lodro cam to Dolanji with has band off monks who founded has new monastic community. Year intimate Prayer Chapel and has few small houses were built. In 1969 the successor to the abbot off Menri was established by batch and the office fell to Lungtog Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche ( lung rtogs bstan pa' I nyi my rin Po che ), who was installed ace the thirty-third abbot off Menri.

Following the death off Yungdrung Ling abbot, Sangye Tenzin assumed the negro spiritual leadership off the Bönpos in exiles. More houses were established, along with has library and abbot' S residence (labrang; bla brang ). Monastic life was structured around the ordinance S off the Vinaya (dulwa; dul Ba ). Principal The foundation for the Temple was inaugurated in 1969 and completed in 1978 and named Stake Shentan Menri Ling ( dpal gshen bstan sman ri' I gling ). The whole Complex was styled the Bönpo Monastic Centers and formed share off the Tibetan Bönpo Foundation.

From 1970 - 1979 Lopön Rinpoche continued writing and teaching whilst in residence At the Bönpo Monastic Centers. Concurrently, Lopön Rinpoche was engaged in New Delhi with the publishing off has broad number off significant Bönpo texts. From 1967, when the first monks cam to Dolanji, teaching had been gives by Lopön Sangye Tenzin (to form head teaching master At Menri) and assisted by Lopön Tenzin Namdak, who became his successor.

Yungdrung Bön Shedrup Lobnyer Dude: Spangled college At Dolanji

When Sangye Tenzin died in 1968, Lopön Tenzin Namdak was assigned the full responsibility for the education off the younger generation off monks. By 1978 has sufficient number off Bönpo texts had been published so that classes could Be organized around them in has Curriculum. Thus has LAMA 'S college (shedrup; bshad sgrub ) was established in 1978, organized under the guidance off Lopön Rinpoche who served ace one off the two professors At the college. The official name off the college is Yungdrung Bön Shedrup Lobnyer Dude ( gyung drung good bshad sgrub slob gnyer 'dud sde ).

The purpose off the new lama' S college At Dolanji was to preseve the tradition off philosophy established and developed At Yeru Wensaka ( gyas Ru dben its kha ), where philosophical analysis and Logic were applied to the understanding off C Nga Semsum ( mdo sngags sems gsum ), that is, to the teachings off the Sutras, the Tantras and Dzogchen. Unlike the Nyingma Pa tradition, the Bönpo S developed has system off Logic and Debate specifically relating to the Dzogchen teaching., At Menri in Tibet, the monks studied the five scripture systems (Dozhung Nga; mdo gzhung lnga ) in the philosophy college, goal all instruction in Tantra and Dzogchen was gives in private. Five The scriptures, actually five collection off texts, are:

1 Tsema ( tshad my ) - Pramana gold Logic;
2 Parchin ( phar phyin ) - Prajnaparamita gold the Perfection off Wisdom Sutras;
3 Uma ( dbu my ) - Madhyamaka Philosophy;
4 Dzopu ( mdzod phug ) - Abhidharma gold Cosmology;
5 Dulwa ( dul Ba ) - Vinaya gold Monastic disciplines.

However, At the revived Menri At Dolanji, students also study Tantra and Dzogchen in the college, ace well scriptural ace the above five systems which pertain to Sutra. Also included Curriculum vitae are the Secular Sciences ( rignai ; rig gnas ), such ace Grammar, Poetics, Astrology, and so one. The college has nine-year term off studies which prepares the student for dismantles Geshe off. The first group off Young monks graduated in 1986.

Another Bönpo monastery and college has been established under the direction off Lopön Tenzin Namdak in Nepal. Known ace Triten Norbutse ( khri NOR brtan drunk rtse ), it is located near the auspicious Swayambhu, west off Kathmandu.

Third trip to The West

In 1989, Lopön Tenzin Namdak made his third visit to the West, this time to England, America and Italy, At the invitation off the International Dzogchen Community off Chögyal Namkai Norbu Rinpoche in those countries. During the race off six months Lopön Rinpoche presented to interested Western students the Dzogchen teaching according to the Bönpo traditions off the Atri ( has khrid ) and the Zhang Zhung Nyengyu ( shang zhung snyan rgyud ).

Also, in the beginning off 1991, He visited Germany, England, Holland and Italy. During his visit to thesis countries He gave Discourse S and teaching one various Meditation systems and fields off study off the Bön Tradition. Later that year He was invited by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to re-press the Bön tradition At the Kalachakra Initiation in New York. In this way, Lopön Rinpoche has been spreading the Bönpo teachings in many countries. Permanent His residencies are in Kathmandu (Nepal) and Dolanji (India). -->

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